Adam Sisman's 'Secret Life of John le Carré' reveals affairs that shaped the novels washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Adam Sisman is sensitive to the charge that a book about an author’s unknown mistresses is simply an exercise in prurience. ‘I am not one of those who believes sex explains everything,’ he declares defensively. An affair with the wife of a close friend led to the ménage depicted in The Naive and Sentimental Lover
The biographer of the late David Cornwell, better known to the world by his pen name, John le Carré, can now reveal the truth behind his love life, with 11 women who he had affairs with identified
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John le Carré's sons: 'He would regard today as the high, dark comedy of really stupid government' telegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
RICHARD KAY: The words tremble with passion on the page: 'This was sex as I had never encountered it before. This was sex that only the hero and heroine can have; sex for the cameras'.